Top 10 Most Violent Prisons in the World
6. ADX-Florence Supermax Facility
ADX Florence in Fremont Country, Colorado, houses the most dangerous inmates in the U.S. prison system and is believed to the world’s most secure prison. The ADX can house up to 500 prisoners in its eight units. Inmates spend their days in 12-by-7-foot cells with thick concrete walls and double sets of sliding metal doors. A single window, about three feet high but only four inches wide, offers a notched glimpse of sky and little else. Each cell has a sink-toilet combo and an automated shower, and prisoners sleep on concrete slabs topped with thin mattresses. Inmates have to spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement and incidents of force feeding and suicide are pretty high. This kind of treatment leads to serious psychological problems for the inmates.
